The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018

Overview

These Regulations make miscellaneous amendments to a number of pieces of secondary legislation within the remit of Defra, and largely deal with out of date references to domestic and EU instruments but several of the amendments also reflect changes to EU law in relation to hazardous waste, environmental information, pesticides and beef and veal labelling. The amended articles in question are:

• The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (the EIA Regulations);
• The Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009; 
• The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015;
• The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018; and
• The Beef and Veal Labelling Regulations 2010.